US to fund Agent Orange clean-up - BBC

[Eugene]

Last Updated: Friday, 9 February 2007, 07:26 GMT

US to fund Agent Orange clean-up
By Bill Hayton
BBC News, Hanoi

The US has agreed for the first time to pay to clean up a site in Vietnam
which stored Agent Orange and other chemicals used during the Vietnam war.

The chemicals contained the highly poisonous dioxin, which has been linked
to many illnesses.

But the US continues to dispute the actual spraying of the chemicals was
responsible for millions of cases of disability and ill health in Vietnam.

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But now the US has agreed for the first time to pay to help clean up a site
where dioxin was stored at Danang airbase, now the city's international
airport, according to the US Ambassador Michael Marine.

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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6345171.stm

[sam sarrha]

1. and how are we going to clean up the depleted uranium in Iraq !!!

[Greeby]

3. Apparently, there are ways

Iraq wanted to do it after the first Gulf War, but they weren't allowed to get the experts and equipment in because of the sanctions

[sam sarrha]

4. i beg to differ.. maybe the hardware with DU inside it, but the rest is in the wind, it has been

showing up in meters as far away as Greenland..

[Benhurst]

2. Old war crimes coming home to roost.